hi all, 
nice to be here again in this great site.
in the last year i followed the instruction in this site and 
have hat planted 14 fig trees.


some of them are doing fine and some others
are weak developed. but the big problem is that 4 trees were eaten by a mole in the ground.

in the coming spring i am planning to plant other 4 trees. i have seen my neighbor 
growing figs by just planting the cutting directly into the ground and they were stronger
and taller than my figs that i started them in bags then transferred to pots then finally to the ground.
so i wan't to ask here about planting the fig cuttings directly in the ground, is there precautions that i should take? what about the sunlight ? what if i dig a deep hole and placed the cutting at the bottom, would it better survive and reach the soil moisture easily ?

I have seen pix of this done in France. They take cuttings about 2" in diameter and about 4' long, buried half way in the ground where they want the tree to be in the orchard. A lot depends on six and drainage, I would assume.

Hi petangadiego,
I'll try it, I have nothing to lose :-)
since I have already planted 14 trees. Now I can try it in other ways, I may save my self some work.
Here we have an excellent soil that can keep moisture, my goal is to plant the fig tree and let it
Build roots that are able to reach the deep soil water before the dry Summer come .

I plan on giving that method a try this coming spring here in south louisiana just to see the difference. I don't know if fungus gnats would be a problem when putting the cutting directly in the ground like my last batch that was hit hard.............I'll see next season.

I visited Bill's fig forest last week. He makes them 'walk' to where he wants the new tree. He does that, by leaning a sucker or bending a branch down to the ground in the direction, he wants the new tree. It is a jungle out there and he has lots of figs also.

Please see the article and video:

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/allyoucaneat/2013/08/19/a-fig-tree-grows-in-seattle-the-man-his-mission-propagation/

 are 2 videos at the bottom of the article

I did it last fall. I took a roughly 18" long piece I pruned in November and buried it at an angle so that the deepest part was about 6" below the surface and the last inch or two was above ground. Nothing came up at first and I wrote it off as a loss, but in mid -July I noticed a shoot coming up and it grew so rapidly that it surpassed all other cuttings I took last fall.

My favorite way of propagating cuttings is to just lay the cutting down in a 1" trench, covered by 1/2 " dirt in a semi shade place.  Depending on what time of year you do this, the cuttings will grow.  They like heat and damp, but they will not mold or rot underground.

I have a few laid out this way, but late in the season, and I expect nothing from them until spring.

Suzi

I took 3 branches off of a negronne this spring, between 2-3 feet each then planted in the ground, I went about 18 inches deep in the hole and left 3-4 inches of the branches sticking out above ground.  They didn't root right away, I thought 1 had died but they all rooted, not much growth but strong enough growth.  

For me it all comes down to timing. You want the ground to be warm when planting. I do not have an issue with this. However, I need to get them in the ground early enough for sufficient root growth to support the tree when the intense heat sets in.

A cutting knows the seasons.  If you bury it, it will go dormant surrounded by damp cool dirt.  That dirt might get really cold, but the cutting will just chill.  When the sun comes out to warm the earth, the cutting will respond.  If you drowned it with too much water, you lost it, but if you leave it alone, it will root and grow when the sun shines late spring.
Suzi

Very nice information, thanks for sharing.

Best,
Tam

While ground temperature isn't so much the issue in central Texas, I have not found a way to control the rain we seem to get during winter. For my area, I had the best success rate putting cuttings (both per-rooted and not) into the ground between mid/late January and early March.

thank you all for all the important information posted here. I asked also the old people here that learned growing figs from father to sun for generations. The answer was so simple , that is to plant cuttings deep in the soil in early spring , then watering few times during the summer. The succes rate is relatively hight. I'll personally add to that to shade the fig from sun the first year, I do this by placing a large white bucket (bottum cut) over the fig , that will prevent the new emerging leaves from burning in the sun.and it gave me good results.